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BBC News 26 Jan 11
More than 1,000 jobs may be created in the West Midlands as part of development plans for the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail link.
There have been proposals to turn the former LDV site in Birmingham into a maintenance headquarters for the rail line, possibly creating up to 250 jobs…
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Express & Star 21 Dec 10
The high speed rail route between London and the West Midlands has been altered after furious opposition from residents. The new preferred HS2 route announced by Transport Secretary Philip Hammond will bypass Lichfield and Whittington.
Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant said: “Many in Lichfield and Whittington will regard it as a major victory”.
The 250mph line will take passengers between Birmingham and the capital in just 49 minutes…
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Justine Halifax B'ham Post 8 Dec 10
Campaigners battling to thwart the proposed route of Britain’s second high speed railway through Staffordshire are celebrating after it emerged planners had rejected part of the route that threatened to blight their homes.
It comes after Tamworth MP Christopher Pincher revealed HS2 engineers have confirmed that Hopwas Ridge is not an option…
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Paul Dale B'ham Mail 30 Nov 10
Rail journeys between Birmingham and London will take a staggeringly short 40 minutes when a planned high speed rail service is up and running, it has emerged.
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond revealed that non-stop 250 mph bullet train services will run between a new station at Eastside and Euston in just over half an hour compared to 85 minutes at the moment…
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BusinessDesk 17 Nov 10
Government chiefs visited Birmingham to hear how the city and surrounding area is tackling transport issues.
The committee said it had chosen to visit the second city because of its extensive transport network and systems such as the M6 Toll motorway, ‘spaghetti junction’, New Street Station revamp and expansion plans for both the Midland Metro and Birmingham Airport…
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Express & Star 4 Nov 10
The government was facing calls today to abandon £30 billion plans for a high speed rail line to cut through the West Midlands.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) was due to tell Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Transport, at a conference today that speeds of up to 250mph would require straighter tracks. This would prevent new tracks following valleys, existing rail lines or motorways. It means only routes that cut through open countryside are being considered in areas such as Warwickshire and Staffordshire…
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Jonathan Walker B'ham Mail 4 Oct 10
Birmingham looks set to benefit from two high-speed rail lines heading north to both Leeds and Manchester
Tories have drawn up new plans for high speed rail services, setting out how the Government would extend the service from London beyond the West Midlands…
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Jonathan Walker B'ham Mail 22 Sep 10
Transport Minister Norman Baker has vowed to fast track a new high speed line between London and Birmingham – and avoid the tradition rail project delays.
He insisted the project would not be affected by spending cuts – even though the comprehensive spending review announced by Chancellor George Osborne on October 20 is set to cut overall transport spending. Speaking at a fringe meeting during the Liberal Democrat conference, Mr Baker highlighted the case of Thameslink, a £5.5 billion rail scheme in London, which was proposed in 1991 – and began construction in 2007…
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Duncan Tift BusinessDesk 25 Aug 10
The new high speed rail link set to deliver journey times of 47 minutes between Birmingham and London could be worth £1.5bn a year to the West Midlands economy, business leaders have been told.
Speaking at a meeting in Birmingham, chief executive of public transport body Centro, Geoff Inskip said new research conducted on behalf of the group had suggested the West Midlands GDP worth grow by £1.5bn a year from 2022 once the rail network was operational…
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Lee Jordan's weblog 25 May 10
The year is 2010, it’s the future, we are my friends, just 5 years away from flying cars and hoverboards, yet it still takes longer to get around the Midlands than it does to get from here to London. The future is just one let down after another!
Forget wizzing around in tubes like in Futurama, or having your own bubble car as seen in the highly optimistic era that produced the Jetsons, we are facing an under reported challenge to carry on moving in the face of oil depletion. You see if you look back just 70 years, we started building our local transport networks around electricity. We had trams and we lived so local that one would not even need a car to get to the shops, lest need a bus pass to get to work or school (people could and did have lunch at home), and oh the bus ran on electric too…